Machine for ironing shirt-fronts or other articles.



No. 663,585. Patented Doe. II, I900. S. H, SEKIAN.

MACHINE FOR IRDNING SHIRT FRONTS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

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MACHINE FOR IRONENG SHIRT FRDNTS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

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MACHINE FOR IRONING SHlRT-FRONTS OR OTHER ARTICLES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 663,585, dated December11, 1900.

Application filed July 30, 1898. Serial No. 687,860. (No model.)

To (tZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that LSARKIs HAROUTIOUN SE- KIAN, of Dickinson road,Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Machines for Ironing Shirt-Fronts orother Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates, primarily, to machines for ironing shirt-frontsin which a reciprocating bed carrying an ironing table travels to andfro under a revolving heated roller mounted in fixed or stationary bearings. It is designed to iron the shirt-fronts transversely one side orhalf of a shirt-front at a time or both sides or halves of the front atthe same time without one side overlapping the other, or the right-handside of the front of one shirt and the left side of the front of anothershirt at the same time. It will be fully described with reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which are illustrated several modifications ofthe invention.

Figure 1 is a plan of the ironing-machine, showing myinvention appliedthereto; Fig. 2, a plan of one part or half of the ironing board ortable when divided into two separate parts;

, Fig. 3, a plan of the other part or half of ironing board or tablecorresponding with Fig. 2, but showing a slight modification inconstruction; Fig. 4, a side elevation of Fig. 2; Fig 5, a sideelevation showing a modification in the form of base upon which theironing board or table or surface is mounted, the top being similar toFig. 3; Fig. 6, a plan of Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a plan showing anothermodification in the shape of the board or table-top; Fig. 8, a planshowing another modified shape of board or table-top; Fig. 9, a sideelevation of Fig. 8; Fig. 10, aplan showing modification of board ortable-top in which both sides of opening are out in steps.

As the invention comprises a recess or opening a or a at one end of theboard or table to receive the seam of the shirt-opening it is evidentthat such space may be constructed in any suitable or desirable way andof any convenient or suitable shape.

In Figs. 1 to 4 the board or table A is constructed in two parts, oneright hand and the other left, and are used in pairs, preferably placedon the machine in the relative positions shown in Fig.1 and Figs. 2 and3 taken together, with the space a to receive the seam of theshirtopeningbetween them. They may as a matter of course be placed in anyother relative position and either longitudinally or transversely of themachine. At the other end of the board is the recess E to receive theneckband. They are made loose and portable and readily removable as theyare required in different positions in the machine for different methodsor processes of ironing or finishing the fabrics. Thus for laying thestarch evenly over the surface of the shirts the boards or tables areplaced transversely of the machine at right angles to the position shownin Fig. l, and for finally finishing or glossing the shirt-front theboards or tables are placed longitudinally of the machine, asillustrated in Fig. 1.

At the corner of one or both of the boards or tables shown in Figs. 1to7 Icut out or form a recess or notch or space a-of eitherof theshapesshown or any other convenient or suitable shape to receive the seam orjoint at the bottom of the opening of the shirt-front and to permit ofshirts of varying lengths being ironed upon the same table. One half orside of the shirt-front is ironed on one part of the table and the otherside ironed on the other part of the table, two shirts being underoperation at the same time.

In the modifications shown in Figs. 8 to 10 instead of severing theboard or table wholly or making it wholly of two parts the table A forironing both sides of the shirt is made in one piece with the recess ornotch a at one end to permit of the seam or joint at the bottom edge ofthe opening of the shirt-front being turned down or inward, and thusallow of one half or side of the shirt-front being ironed without oneedge over lapping the other edge thereof. The neckband of the shirtfalls into the recess a The recesses a and a are shaped by beingstepped, inclined, or curved to adapt the table to different lengths ofshirts or shi rt-fronts and permit of shirts with short fronts beingironed on the same table as those with long fronts, and vice versa. Therecess or notch a or a in the modifications of the table may be of theshape shown in any other modification of the table.

It will be evident that the board or table may be extended to anydesired extent or shape at either side for any special purposesuch asforironing collars, culfs, or the likewithont departing from thecharacteristic feature of my invention.-

The board or table is in every instance supported on a base B, withspace or opening I) underneath to receive the folds of material of thebody of the shirt to which the front is attached, and in every instanceis provided with a recess for the neckband of the shirt.

The board or table is covered with a piece D of felting, flannel, orother soft material suitable for ironing upon.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to protect by Letters Patent,is-

1. In an ironing-machine the combination with a heated roller mounted infixed bearings and a reciprocating bed, beneath the roller, of anironing-table mounted upon the said bed, provided With two recesses,that at one end to receive the neckband, and that at the other endstepped to permit the seam of the shirt-opening to fall below thesurface of the table substantially as described.

2. In an ironing-machine the combination with a heated roller mounted infixed bearings and a reciprocating bed, of an ironingtable mounted uponthe said bed made in two parts, with a recess at one end forthe neckbandand a recess at the other end for the seam of the shirt-opening,substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

S. H. SEKIAN.

Witnesses:

J. OVVDEN OBRIEN, JOSEPH BATES.

